Re: Gtk::Text widget

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

    Havoc> A gapped text buffer is also good enough for a programming editor,
    Havoc> but it's not going to scale to huge files, it isn't UTF8-friendly,
    Havoc> and many operations can be slower or more difficult or less
    Havoc> flexible than they are for the tree-based widget. For example a
    Havoc> search for all characters with a given tag will be quite fast with
    Havoc> the tree, and either slow or memory-hungry with the gapped buffer.

Is there really somebody using UTF-8 as the internal encoding in a text
widget?  I found it to be more hassle than it was worth and didn't provide
enough memory or speed savings in the general case to keep it.

I would like to point out that the gap buffer I'm using doesn't noticeably
suffer performance-wise until about 4M of text on our Solaris boxes.  IMHO,
this is good enough for a general text editor :-)
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